The drugs were intercepted as part of Operation Martillo, a joint multinational effort targeting drug smuggling. Though the drugs were rounded up in multiple seizures, the Coast Guard released information about only one of those crackdowns.

The Coast Guard crew boarded the boat and found 49 bales of marijuana on board. The bales weighed a total of 2,450 pounds of pot. Three suspected smugglers were aboard the boat and taken into custody.

U.S. Coast Guard / Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Barney

“These seizures highlight how effectively the U.S Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection are working together to disrupt the flow of illicit drugs from South America into the United States and Caribbean nations,” Cmdr. Timothy Cronin, deputy chief of law enforcement for the Coast Guard 7th District, said in a statement. “We have to keep these drugs from penetrating our borders. More importantly, we have to get after the organized criminal networks that fuel the violence and instability in the Western Hemisphere.”

The seizure continues a record year for the Coast Guard when it comes to drug smuggling. The military branch claims it has seized $4.3 billion worth of cocaine since October 2014. That's 130 metric tons' worth of white stuff, or about 130 elephants worth' of nose powder — which is probably more than even 130 elephants could snort.